Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment : Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Overview -- SECTION I: THE PLANETARY CRISIS -- The Human Context -- The Natural Background -- SECTION II: RELIGIOUS ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Aboriginal Spirituality -- The Environmental Crisis and Jewish Earthways -- Chosen Persons and the Green Ecumenacy: A Possible Christian Response to the Population Apocalypse -- Islam and the Environment -- Population Pressure, Natural Resources, the Environment, and Hinduism -- Buddhist Resources for Issues of Population and Consumption in Relationship with the Environment -- Chinese Religions -- SECTION III: SECULAR ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Prescriptions from Religious and Secular Ethics for Breaking the Impoverishment/Environmental Degradation Cycle -- Ethics, Family Planning, the Status of Women, and The Environment -- Projected Population Patterns, North-South Relations, and the Environment -- SECTION IV: ECONOMIC, LEGAL, AND DEEP ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Environmental Degradation and the Religion of the Market -- International Law, Population Pressure, and the Environment: North-South Relations -- The Northern Consumption Issue After Rio and the Role of Religion in Environmentalism -- SECTION V: RESPONSES FROM BUSINESS, RELIGION, AND GOVERNMENTS -- Possible Response Options for Corporations -- Possible Response Options for Religions -- Possible Response Options for Governments -- SECTION VI: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.